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title: Wait, what fruit was Possum straight-up beggin' for? — Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what fruit was Possum straight-up beggin' for? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

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Wait, what fruit was Possum straight-up beggin' for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, fruit · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** Possum

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/583-pg2306-part19/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t2:1
# text = Wait, what fruit was Possum straight-up beggin' for?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
10	beggin	beggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | fruit | Possum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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'simmons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t2:o1:1
# text = 'simmons
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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them ripe 'simmons off de tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t2:o2:1
# text = them ripe 'simmons off de tree
1	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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dem sweet wild 'simmons, fo' sho

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t2:o3:1
# text = dem sweet wild 'simmons, fo' sho
1	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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peaches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t2:o4:1
# text = peaches
1	peaches	peach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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